A snob is anybody who takes a small part of you and uses it to come to a complete vision of who you are. That is snobbery. And the dominant form of snobbery that exists today is job snobbery — you encounter it within minutes at a party when you get asked that famous, iconic question of the 21st century: ‘What do you do?’ The opposite of a snob is your mother.

Alain de Botton on false standards and reclaiming the metrics of success. (via curiositycounts)

Love the credit check discussion at parties.

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